April event

Snow’s Legacy: Epidemiology Today and Tomorrow

This two-day conference provided a contemporary evaluation of Snow’s legacy and explored developments in epidemiological methods and their application in disciplines within and beyond the health sciences.

A conference gala dinner took place at the Wellcome Trust on 11 April with after-dinner speaker Jon Snow, Channel 4 newscaster.

The singular science of John Snow
Nigel Paneth, University Distinguished Professor, Departments of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Pediatrics & Human Development, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University; John Snow Biographer

Lunch

Session II: Epidemiology today

Chair: Shah Ebrahim, Professor of Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

14.00

The causes of epidemiology
Cesar Victora, President of the International Epidemiological Association; Professor of Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Brasil

Friday 12 April 2013

09.00

Arrival

Session IV: Transmission and spread

Chair: John Edmunds, Dean of the Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

09.30

Treating violence as an epidemic disease
Gary Slutkin, Founder and Executive Director of CeaseFire, Professor of Epidemiology and International Health, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health

Image: Map showing deaths from cholera in Broad Street, Golden Square and the surrounding area from 19 August – 30 September 1854. From John Snow’s ‘On the mode of communication of cholera’ (2nd edition, 1855). Credit: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Archive.